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Runner

...b  a  n  g   b  a  n  g!
I couldn't believe I just fired some shots
there she laid...
    belly up
   counting the dust
dead as loneliness buried in silence
trouble b o l d l y stared st...

Your Life Review

...The Mayans, Egyptians, Aztecs, and more:
Civilizations since Adam and Eve
had their philosophies of where souls go.
They all needed something in which to believe.

Cain killed his brother and th...

Bring Back Neanderthal Man

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     ~ An Eight-Line Treatise on 'Settler Colonialism' ~

         The Apache beat up on the Cheyenne
           and the Iroquois on the Sioux

         Mohawks ‘mohawked’ the Mohicans
      ...

On Moral Relativism, Part II

......You apply it to history
and the causes we fought
just fade away into nothing,
and everything is lost.
You think that slavery was bad,
that’s just your point-of-view,
you think that women sho...

THE M-A-Y-A-N-S

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Dia de los Muertos

...Dia de Los Muertos
Day of the Dead
Originated by Aztecs
Celebrated in Mexico and Philippines

Aztecs called it Miccaihuitl
Catholics call it All Saints Day and All Souls Day
I call it Day of t...

frightening barn owl masks

...I have seen masks that give me a fright
But the barn owl masks are truly not right
They turn the warriors into crying babies.
Running away as if we all have rabies.

The barn owl masks are spook...

Teotl Shining Through

...Teotl is the shining gold light above everything 
Wearing a mask of white and grey clouds 
Teotl is the breath and wind of all seen and unseen 
Greeting all who return to its arms 

Split a piec...

There Was No Noble Savage

...I sometimes hear a stubborn myth,
that before Europeans came
the locals of America
all lived lives quite peaceful, and tame.

The old trope of the Noble Savage,
that somehow manages to persist,...

What Happened To the Giants, Part Ii

......Yes, I’m talking of *****sapiens,
the last human species that still remains,
when they burst out of their African home
nothing ever would again be the same.

You saw it plain with the neander...

Spoliarium

...Masterpiece of an Indio
Legacy of one native Bravo

As I gaze at the piece
Memories of gladiators seize
Under the roofs of soft floors
Are bloodsheds on hard, scratched floors

Have you ever ...

You Are Owed No Reparations, Part Ii

......And what of my English background,
when those damn Normans came to town,
they slaughtered us, and left us ruled,
by Frenchman with ambitions cruel!
So Paris owes me lots of cash,
and London o...

Apologize For Slavery, Part Ii

......But the problem with apologies
is where exactly do we start?
The Aztecs took thousands of slaves,
and ‘praised their gods’ but cutting out hearts.
The Indians enslaved each other,
and settler...

Why We Will Overcome Covid19

...I
Siblings, we will overcome, COVID-19
And most anything by growing as human
(Jennifer Proxenos's POTD inspired my writing)
Again about this pandemic in perspective

II
Remember the American I...

Ummmmmmm Become Ymmmmmmm

...What makes a word?
Who made each word?
Someone had to, right?
It may have been Adam and Eve.

Or perhaps they sat around staring at apples and fig leaves.
Maybe they hummed, and marched and san...

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